Coco before Chanel
Title:
Coco before Chanel
Author:
Fontaine, Anne, screenwriter, director.
Publication Information:
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Classics : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2010]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
General Note:
Adapted from the novel L'irreguliere by Edmonde Charles-Roux.
Title from container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.
Special features: Walking the red carpet: from Los Angeles to New York ; Coco before Chanel "La rencontre" ; the making of Coco before Chanel ; commentary with writer/director Anne Fontaine, theatrical trailer.
Language:
French
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for sexual content and smoking.
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Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781435992962
UPC:
043396331600
043396331624
Format :
DVD
